Robert W. Hahn is director of the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and a research associate at Harvard University. Previously, he served as a senior staff member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. Mr. Hahn frequently contributes to general-interest periodicals and leading scholarly journals, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, American Economic Review, Science and Yale Law Journal. Most recently, he is the author of Reviving Regulatory Reform: A Global Perspective (AEI-Brookings Joint Center, 2000). In addition, Mr. Hahn is cofounder of the Community Preparatory School––an inner-city middle school in Providence, Rhode Island, that provides opportunities for disadvantaged youth to achieve their full potential.

James K. Glassman is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he specializes in issues involving economics, technology and financial markets. He is also host of TechCentralStation.com, a public-affairs website that concentrates on matters of technology and public policy, and he writes a weekly financial column for the Washington Post that also appears in the International Herald Tribune, the New York Daily News and other newspapers. Mr. Glassman is author of The Secret Code of the Superior Investor (Crown) and co-author, with Kevin Hassett, of Dow 36,000 (Times Books). He was formerly monthly investment columnist for the Reader’s Digest, editor and part-owner of Roll Call, president of the Atlantic Monthly, executive vice president of U.S. News & World Report and publisher of the New Republic. He has also had extensive television experience as host of Capital Gang Sunday on CNN and TechnoPolitics on PBS.

Bjorn Lomborg is an associate professor of statistics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. He has recently been appointed to head Denmark’s new Institute for Environmental Evaluation in Copenhagen. Mr. Lomborg, a former member of Greenpeace, is author of the controversial book, The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World, which was hailed by The Economist as being "one of the most valuable books on public policy." In November 2001, Mr. Lomborg was selected as a "Global Leader for Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum. Academically, Mr. Lomborg has published internationally in the fields of game theory and computer simulations. He is a member of the Learned Society of Aarhus and the American Political Science Association. He participates frequently in the public debate on television, radio, and newspapers. He has lectured widely in Denmark, Scandinavia, and elsewhere in Europe.